This list of resources has been compiled by the iDMEu organisers for their own starting students (Master's and PhD level). It focuses on the research topics that the organisers work on, so it is not comprehensive. It is a work in progress and a living document, and as such it is updated frequently. If you have resources to propose for addition, you can add them as comments directly to this google document and send us an email that you've done so.
Particle dark matter reading material
Bold: recommended readings
Non-bold: optional / extra readings
General resources and evidence for dark matter
A very simple explanation of why we think DM is there: the first page of this website https://cdms.phy.queensu.ca/Public_Docs/DM_Intro.html
Annika Peter, Dark Matter: A Brief Review - https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3942
Mariangela LISANTI, Lectures at Spring School ICTP Trieste, 2016
Lecture 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vcAZoxhAc
Lecture 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU--CA-T1xc
Lecture 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4T1FpJbNg
G. Bertone, D. Hooper, J. Silk, Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404175
G. Bertone, T. Tait, A New Era in the Quest for Dark Matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01668
T. Plehn, M. Bauer, Another introduction to dark matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01987
A historical, non-technical view:
- How dark matter came to matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00013 [short]
- A History of Dark Matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04909 [long]
Current topics in astroparticle physics & cosmology: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/54648/
A more technical, classical review of dark matter candidates: G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski, K. Griest, Supersymmetric Dark Matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9506380
More reviews and lectures:
[More advanced] Tracy SLATYER, Lectures at GGI Florence, 2018 (series of 5 lectures): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndS-w1XxQ6k&list=PLDxsZU4NC6Z62PBFULdYih_POSbj3J-eK
Mariangela LISANTI, Lecture notes at TASI 2015: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03797
Links to specific topics:
Comprehensive source of reasons why we think DM is there:
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March10/Garrett/Garrett_contents.html - Section III
Dynamics of galaxy clusters:
- Theory: Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
- Swedish contribution to dark matter
- (More advanced) material by J. Read here: https://indico.lucas.lu.se/event/399/contribution/0/material/3/0.pdf pp 17-19 for classical evidence of DM, it derives the first calculation by Zwicky and that is a fun thing to do yourself as it only requires classical mechanics
Galaxy rotation curves: Video of rotation of galaxies with and without DM: Play media
Galaxy formation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MncUDWhPB_E
Gravitational lensing:
- Bullet cluster: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060824.html
- Video of collision of the bullet cluster (one galaxy going through another like a bullet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC5LwjsgI4I
Cosmic microwave background:
- What is the CMB? http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_and_the_cosmic_microwave_background
- http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
- How is it connected to dark matter?
[DM@Colliders]
Particle physics and the LHC, in general
General particle physics and the Standard Model
http://home.cern/about/physics/standard-model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aa5b25/pdf
The Large Hadron Collider
http://home.cern/topics/large-hadron-collider
LHC Searches
Looking for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) and more
Video by an ATLAS physicist on how to measure dark matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmflTZnRuZI
How ATLAS looks for dark matter:
Review: https://atlas-public.web.cern.ch/updates/feature/dark-matter
Seminar by Christian Ohm (KTH): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMYFhRz9UN8
More advanced review of collider searches, with links to other experiments: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12238
More specific details about ATLAS searches:
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/52017 (with event display in "onion" detector)
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/60149
http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/65017
Outreach-level short presentation on dark matter at colliders from Universal Science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ydKLI09oE (starts at minute 7)
[Indirect detection]
Stefano Profumo, TASI 2012 Lectures on Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0952
Dan Hooper, TASI Lectures on Indirect Searches For Dark Matter - https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02029
[Accelerator experiments]
Review of dark photons: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.01515.pdf
Physics Beyond Colliders report on BSM (not only Dark Matter): https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09966
[Direct detection]
Work in progress...
[Gravitational wave experiments]
Review of how GW can constrain dark matter: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10610
[Wave-like DM (e.g. axions, ultralight particles)]
Recent review (with theory focus): https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11735